Ensbury Park: Beswick Avenue

Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 10 Apr 2020

This is an unusual road in that it has a dead end at both ends but the middle section forms a busy rat-run. The southern dead end leads into the large Glenmoor and Winton secondary schools, while here we are looking northward into the northern no-through section. It has sprouted numerous side-roads of infill development, from the 1980s right up to very recent times. No doubt this is why some of the house numbers are specified on the sign, which dates from about 2009 when the modern emblem was adopted as a working logo for the council, in place of the borough coat of arms. The no-through-road sign has been strapped onto one of the legs as a bit of an afterthought, rather than being incorporated in the nameplate as usual (see for example Image). This is photo no.37 of a series of 451 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.

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